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Table 5 Circling and copulation in mating bioassays

From: The mate recognition protein gene mediates reproductive isolation and speciation in the Brachionus plicatiliscryptic species complex

Males

Females

Circling (%)

SE

Sig

Copulation (%)

SE

Sig

B. plicatilis s.s.(1)

AUPEA006

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUPEA006

11.6

1.2

 

48.1

12.5

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUBUS001

17.6

2.9

*

32.0

4.0

 
  

B. manjavacas

BmRUS

14.5

2.9

 

14.4

6.0

 
  

Towerinniensis

AUYEN020

9.6

2.1

 

14.5

6.2

*

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUBUS001

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUBUS001

24.4

2.3

 

47.4

4.9

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s (2)

JPNAG062

28.3

3.0

 

8.3

3.0

***

  

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUPEA006

8.4

2.0

**

35.4

9.7

 
  

Austria

MNCHU008

21.1

1.1

 

33.9

7.8

 
  

Tiscar/Japan

JPNAG023

3.8

1.5

**

3.7

3.7

*

B. plicatilis s.s (2)

JPNAG062

B. plicatilis s.s (2)

JPNAG062

6.4

1.7

 

12.2

7.9

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUBUS001

11.0

3.0

 

21.3

10.0

 

B. manjavacas

BmRUS

B. manjavacas

BmRUS

11.4

1.8

 

34.0

6.0

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s. (2)

BEARCO10

9.8

1.7

 

4.2

2.8

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUPEA006

6.0

1.2

 

24.9

10.9

 
  

Towerinniensis

AUYEN020

4.4

1.2

*

0.0

0.0

***

Towerinniensis

AUYEN020

Towerinniensis

AUYEN020

12.8

1.7

 

34.5

5.7

 
  

B. plicatilis s.s (1)

AUPEA006

0.6

0.3

***

0.0

0.0

***

  

B. manjavacas

BmanRUS

4.8

1.3

*

0.0

0.0

***

  

Harvey

AUPIP011

0.0

0.0

**

0.0

0.0

**

Harvey

AUPIP011

Harvey

AUPIP011

0.2

0.2

 

12.5

12.5

 
  

Towerinniensis

AUYEN020

0.0

0.0

 

0.0

0.0

 
  1. Percentages shown for self-crosses are averages from multiple experiments. Parentheses following B. plicatilis s.s. indicate whether the isolate contains mmr-b sequence type 1 or type 2. Significance of differences between self- and out-crosses was calculated using data from single self-cross experiment conducted simultaneously with out-cross, which is different than the average from the multiple experiments shown. Significance determined using Mann-Whitney U-test (* for p < 0.05, ** for p < 0.005, *** for p < 0.0005, two-tailed test).